1 year old!!!

My beautiful daughter was one years old last week and she is no longer a baby any more.  She is all grown up and making sure that we all know it too!

Up until a few weeks ago, she wasn't that interested in feeding herself. Now, within a couple of weeks, all she wants to do is feed herself, one rice grain at a time if that's what it takes! She will let me feed from time to time, usually when she is very hungry, but if there is food in front of her which she can pick up and feed herself, she will do and will refuse to let anyone else feed her.

Just a few days after she turned one, she decided to go for a walk, unsupported.  Three steps on her first day, seven or eight steps the next day and now the odd few steps a day as she pleases!  She thinks it hilarious as she's doing it and giggles all the way until she falls down. I admit it is quite funny though.  She walks with her hands out in front of her, like something out of the zombies movie, and there is no clear direction.  You can see where she wants to go when she starts walking but then ends up slightly off her route as if she were drunk!!

I have stopped breast feeding her to sleep and I was worried that she wouldn't sleep without bawling her eyes out and then, being so exhausted from the crying that she would drop off to sleep.  She was a bit off for a week but seems to have got used to the idea of not being breastfed and is happy to fall asleep in my arms. So grown up now and not reliant on me any more. I think I miss that part as much as she did but it is good too as I'm slowly getting my life back!

She can't properly talk yet, but she does like to have conversations with you in her own baby language.  No idea what she is saying but the tone is like as if she is having a serious conversation!

So, the first big milestone in her life has gone by and my one year old daughter is now a little toddler. How fast this one year seems to have flown by!

I can't wait....

So now that my daughter is almost 8 months, I thought I'd have lots of time to write about things, as in my previous post, of all my firsts but I never seem to have any time. My day seems to revolve around Jaia's feeding times, three solid meals a day and three breast feeds a day.  I can't wait for the breast feeds to end.  I know I can start using formula feeds but since I'm not working yet, I may as well try and breastfeed for as long as I can. When she's not feeding, I'm checking that Jaia's not getting into any trouble, now that she's somehow managed to move by bum shuffling!

Sleep is another thing that I miss.  I want to sleep, like even now I should be sleeping but I don't always want to sleep as soon as Jaia goes to sleep nor can I always fall asleep when Jaia does. I can't wait til Jaia starts sleeping through the night for more than just the odd days here and there.

There seems to be a lot of can't waits but I don't want to miss out on Jaia being a baby by wishing for the next thing to come.  But I must admit it does get a bit easier as they get older. I can't believe she's almost 8 months!  I've got lots of photos but I need to take more videos of Jaia.

Anyway, that's all for now.  Hopefully get some sleep for more than four hours....

First Time on Blog

Wow, so this is exciting.  Just started my own blog today. Not sure if anyone will even read this so I might just go rambling off.  

So the clocks changed yesterday and I now have the big task of trying to get Jaia into the new routine, doing everything an hour earlier, not that I had much of a routine before that anyway! 

We woke up an hour later, (which is our usual time), so the breakfast feed became later than normal. I then tried giving her lunch of cauliflower and potatoes at the new 12pm but she fell asleep in her high chair. She was looking sleepy and Jaia does occasionally fall asleep at 11am, so I totally blame the clocks for this change in routine.  So when she woke up, I gave her a bf at 1.30ish and now I'm at a bit of loss as to when to feed her next and whether she has had enough feed.

So that's my dilemma of the day.

In order to think about this dilemma, I have gone through a whole box of fingers, a mug of coffee (although while bf, I didn't really want to drink coffee), and watched 60 minute makeover. Last night, I made a big list of things to do, and so far I have done...... none of it. I have instead started a new blog which means that I now have another item to add to my list of things to do.  So far so good then!  Maybe I'll take Jaia out for some fresh air and go for a walk, so I feel a little less guilty of eating all that chocolate.